It’s only hitting me today that we haven’t offered up any Halloween-y content yet. Strange. This is my favorite time of year, though season-less Southern California certainly does it no favors.
Last year we got the contributors together to name the top 20 horror films of all time, an installment of The Lists I’m quite proud of. This year I’ve been settling in each night to a new perennial favorite. Last night it was “Beetle Juice.” I took another look at Carpenter’s “Halloween” earlier in the week and I expect Ill be tossing in the “Coraline” Blu-ray once again, maybe a little Romero. “White Zombie” with Bela Lugosi was a novel distraction the other night.
I don’t worship at the altar of genre, but I do enjoy getting in the spirit, so to speak. Rather than cook something up for the holiday, I figured I’d point you to a pair of UK stories spotlighting the best in horror. The first, in the Daily Telegraph, announces Bernard Herrmann’s “Psycho” theme as the scariest horror theme of all time.